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02-23-2005, 06:12 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 236
| | | Here just about every Drug store even Costco will have Specials on the testers..you buy the strips and the unit is free...I just got a new one last month as my first one was getting a tad worn it was 11 years old ...it took for ever to get a reading now I have the Precision Extra
...this will do just fine for a nother little while...Also at our Local Hospital Diabetes clinic we can trade our units in for a newer one...
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03-04-2005, 05:24 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 6,779
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Bumping it a notch !!!!!! 
__________________  Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you. |
03-15-2005, 04:59 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Savannah, GA USA
Posts: 1,517
| | Just thought I'd give this another bump! 
__________________ The only way to manage diabetes is to CURE it... Diabetes since December, 1983 Meds: Humalog/Pump since 1998, Synthroid 88mcg, Zetia 10mg, Altace 10mg, Prevacid 30mg, Benfotiamine 600mg, 1-a-day multivitamin, Aspirin 325 mg, Garlic-geltab 4,000mg, methylcel. fiber therapy 2,000mg(for cholesterol) So, what's in your lunchbox?  |
03-15-2005, 05:20 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New York
Posts: 109
| | I payed for one meter. My first one. Since then (1988) all have been free. My latest is the Ultra Smart. My endo gave me a coupon for a free one at my local pharmacy (CVS). I'm embarrassed to say, meech, I DID pay $30 for the cable to download to my laptop.  |
03-16-2005, 04:01 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Savannah, GA USA
Posts: 1,517
| | | Zokes, it's all good. I'm just hoping I can save some people heartache and money if I can.
__________________ The only way to manage diabetes is to CURE it... Diabetes since December, 1983 Meds: Humalog/Pump since 1998, Synthroid 88mcg, Zetia 10mg, Altace 10mg, Prevacid 30mg, Benfotiamine 600mg, 1-a-day multivitamin, Aspirin 325 mg, Garlic-geltab 4,000mg, methylcel. fiber therapy 2,000mg(for cholesterol) So, what's in your lunchbox? |
04-11-2005, 07:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 6,779
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Hasn't been bumped since March.  Thought I would give it a push. LOL 
__________________ Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you. |
04-11-2005, 08:02 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
Posts: 6,879
| | Ahhh, bumping and pushing.....sounds like we're dancing! Every time I hear someone "say" doing the bump, I think of that song "Doing the Butt, Aye, Sexy, Sexy!" (can't remember who it's by...LOL - Maybe Cameo)!
__________________ ALL my love, Carwy & Best wishes for a healthy new beginning! 
Saying prayers for him & all our friends, every day.
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- George Carlin (1937-2008)
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Pumps & Meters Used:
MM506,7,8,11 & 12, Cozmo, Animas 1200 & 1250 Many
A1C: 6.4
Type I 26yrs, pumping 12
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04-12-2005, 02:58 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 818
| | Interresting topic I got my first meter for free, but did pay for my accu-chek compact. But then, we don't pay for the test strips here in sweden, same with insulin, lancetts, needles, syringes, pump supplies and pump. Everything is free, except for the BGmeter, which is usually quite cheap
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen  |
04-12-2005, 03:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Gales... Rain... Sleet... Snow.. you name it, I've got it! (UK peep!)
Posts: 1,428
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Originally Posted by UpNorth Interresting topic I got my first meter for free, but did pay for my accu-chek compact. But then, we don't pay for the test strips here in sweden, same with insulin, lancetts, needles, syringes, pump supplies and pump. Everything is free, except for the BGmeter, which is usually quite cheap | That is the same with us we can get everything on prescription in the UK, BG meters I have only had to pay for one, as my clinic gave me my other 2 (werent really supposed to, but did it out of kindness!)
Though the pump isnt really exactly free... but you can get funding.
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T1 since age 11 now 21 ... maybe on the road to getting a pump!!
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05-09-2005, 11:39 AM
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Posts: 5,390
| | | A brief summary of the ways to get one for free:
1. Ask doctor/dietician/educator
2. Call company and ask
3. After coupon or rebates- especially if on sale at a store (watch ads)
4. With purchase of 100 or 50 strips
5. With trade-in
6. A combo of above ways |
06-01-2005, 05:52 AM
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Posts: 6,779
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Just bumping it !!!!!!! 
__________________ Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you. |
07-22-2005, 03:37 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Savannah, GA USA
Posts: 1,517
| | Bumpity, bump bump!
__________________ The only way to manage diabetes is to CURE it... Diabetes since December, 1983 Meds: Humalog/Pump since 1998, Synthroid 88mcg, Zetia 10mg, Altace 10mg, Prevacid 30mg, Benfotiamine 600mg, 1-a-day multivitamin, Aspirin 325 mg, Garlic-geltab 4,000mg, methylcel. fiber therapy 2,000mg(for cholesterol) So, what's in your lunchbox? |
09-16-2005, 03:17 PM
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Meech,hon, we are slacking. Hasn't been bumped since July. Maybe Tony could sticky it for the new members?? Just a thought.
__________________ Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you. |
09-16-2005, 07:10 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Do Dah, OZ, aka Kansas
Posts: 4,409
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Originally Posted by gettingby Meech,hon, we are slacking. Hasn't been bumped since July. Maybe Tony could sticky it for the new members?? Just a thought. | Not Meech or Tony, but this thread has been successfully STUCK. Thought it would be better stuck than have pages of BUMPING.  |
09-17-2005, 09:12 AM
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Posts: 6,779
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Originally Posted by Harold Not Meech or Tony, but this thread has been successfully STUCK. Thought it would be better stuck than have pages of BUMPING. | Thanks Harold.  I really believe that this thread could be helpful to all members, especially the newly diagnosed.
__________________ Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you. |
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